What is the easiest way to provide the user with a compiled version of a matlab function so that he can run without having the source?

I do not want to share the source (a prepared MATLAB function) with the community. What is the most direct way to prepare a compiled version of the function so that the users (having Matlab) can run it?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

If the idea is to obscure the source code, consider,

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/building-a-content-obscured-format-with-p-code.html

This is not so much "compiling" the source code as encrypting it, but that sounds more like what you are trying to do.

[Walter Roberson]

Note that pcode is considered to be more "encoding" rather than "encrypting".

The pcode algorithm changed a few releases ago to make it more obscure. I have not seen anyone post indicating that they have reverse-engineered the new pcode algorithm -- but that doesn't mean that no-one has done it.

pcode should be considered to be a "notable nuisance" level of protection, but definitely not "stops most nation-states" level of protection.

[Matt J]

Here is another relevant link,

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/protect-your-source-code.html